On the occasion of Brigitte Bardot’s 75th anniversary, presents, until January 31st, L’Espace Landowski presents, until January 31st 2010 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), the very first exhibition dedicated to the myth B.B.

Thanks to Mrs Bardot’s support and to loans of collectors, institutions or international artists, the exhibition stages on the 900m2 of L’Espace Landowski of the years « carelessness » of the one who fascinated the world of the 50’s and 60’s.

Real myth and sex-symbol, Brigitte Bardot also embodies the Women’s Liberation. Far from masking the contradictions and rebellions of the one who unchained the most crazy passions, the exhibition attempts to make relive the intensity and the beauty of the real phenomenon of society which she represented.

Brigitte Bardot, who refused for the occasion to be photographed or filmed, approaches without nostalgia but with pride this event prepared by the journalist Henry-Jean Servat, the bosom friend of the star and commissioner of the exhibition.

» I have been through the wringer during which I was boycotted and mistreated. If there is thus, today, another way of considering me, so much the better « , she told him in an interview for Paris Match.

» We don’t only discover Bardot : we also discover an epoch, the French of the 50’s, president René Coty and cabbage soup. We understand all the better why BB changed the codes of the morality « , explains Henry-Jean Servat.

Other aspect of the star presented during the exhibition : her lovers. BB took in her claws Roger Vadim, Samy Frey, Jacques Charrier (who gave her a son), Serge Gainsbourg, Gilbert Bécaud or Jean-Louis Trintignant.

We often compared Kate Moss to Brigitte Bardot. But if people see this resemblance in the chignon, the smock and the mini short, the waders, the Vichy… I see it especially in their attitude. There is as a kind of magnetism which emanates of them which makes them so irresistible, so unique. Maybe it it is famous « je-ne-sais-quoi « .

When we look at them, we see a sulphurous, volcanic, provocating, dangerous woman but we cann’t refrain from admiring them, from loving them, from worshipping them. Bardot never will apologize for being what she is. Quite as Kate the English who refuses stubbornly to play the penitents, even during the scandal Cocaine Kate. This last one declared » What people say isn’ t going to stop me. I have to doh things for myself « . These both there let float behind them a flavor of sulfur on which the fashion, without admitting it, likes getting drunk.